Exhibit 9-3

question 108

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 9-3.The Boston public school district has had difficulty maintaining on-time bus service for its students ("A Year Later,School Buses Still Late," Boston Globe,October 5,2011) .Suppose the district develops a new bus schedule to help combat chronic lateness on a particularly woeful route.Historically,the bus service on the route has been,on average,12 minutes late.After the schedule adjustment,the first 36 runs were an average of 8 minutes late.As a result,the Boston public school district claimed that the schedule adjustment was an improvement-students were not as late.Assume a population standard deviation for bus arrival time of 12 minutes. Refer to Exhibit 9-3.Calculate the value of the test statistic.

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